Plywood Bowls

Had some extra pieces of decent plywood (HD no less) so I glued them up for a couple bowls. Never turned plywood before and didn’t know what to expect. Couple small voids in each piece but overall was satisfied how they turned out. Large bowl is 4.5” x 12” and the smaller is 5” x 8”. Used tenon on the smaller and recess on the larger. Finished off with EEE and Shellawax friction polish.

Tried a couple different bowl gouges but didn’t like the results. Maybe I was scared of catching in a void, I don’t know but pretty decent results with the Sorby Turnmaster on the inside and the EWT Finisher on the outside. Next time I think I’ll try out my regular round nose scrapers. Surface ends up a little rough so I started out with 80 grit. I don’t usually wear gloves but it only took 1 splinter to get them on…ouch!

For shaping the outside, I did rotate the carbide cutter a quarter turn early on just to see if I could get a better cut and I did with the fresh edge for the remainder of the outside. I used HSS cutter in the Turnmaster and sharpened twice for the inside.